PAPERmaking! g FROM THE PUBLISHERS OF PAPER TECHNOLOGY Volume 6, Number 2, 2020
PITA CENTENARY PART 3 (1960-1999): TOWARDS A NEW MILLENNIUM Daven Chamberlain, PITA Publications Editor The first article in this series described the events that led to formation of the Papermakers’ Association Technical Section, 36 and the second covered the first 40 years of the Section up to the end of the 1950s 37 . This article highlights what happened between then and the turn of the new millennium. 38 At the end of the last part I reported that the British Paper & Board Industry Research Association informed the Technical Section that they would have to depart from the Kenley site, where they had been in temporary residence since around 1948, and find a new home. The Section was given until June 1960 to move, but in fact received a reprieve and didn’t decamp until mid-1961, when they transferred to Fetter Lane, near Fleet Street, London. Any move is not without problems, and in this instance the Section lost half of its staff in the process. Nevertheless, membership was increasing (Figure 5) and things generally looked on the up.
Figure 5:
Technical Section membership to 1972 (when publication of the figures within the journal ceased).
The period in question was also momentous for another reason: the well-respected Section Proceedings were replaced by a new magazine: Paper Technology . Initially issued bi-monthly, this replaced all of the Section’s publications and featured original technical articles, copious advertising, some Section news along with very limited industry news, all presented in a new, crisp, more modern format. Gone were the technical articles that could reach 20-30 pages in the old proceedings; now authors were required to restrict their writing to within five pages or so (much as they still are today) in a magazine format that had a distinctly commercial edge compared to the rather dry and academic format of the Section Proceedings . In fact, over the years the style of the magazine changed a number of times, as did the cover style (see Figure 6). From its launch in 1960 until April 1974 it tended to have a coloured cover of plain design,
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